Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-01-15
for the futurel You have made

nrsnarat,ou for the futurel You have made
nnreparatiop for time, my dear brother: have
YOU made any preparation for eternity ~
Won wonder that when that man on tue nuu
son river in Indignation tore up the useS WIZ
was handed to him and just one wore ianI i'
on his coat sleeve-the rest OF the tract peini
pitched into the river-that one word arouseu
his sonl1 IL was that one word, go long, So
broad. SO high, so deep, eternity uyinS
roman in her last moments said: "San II
baekp, They said: What do you WANT
ssTime,n she said; ''call it back" Y, II can
not be called back; we might lose our ~, I'I
and call them back; We might lose our health
and perhaps recover it; We might lose our
good name and get that back; but time gone
is gone forever.
Some of you during the past year made pre-
paration for eternity, and 1t makes no uiller
ence to YOU really, as TO the matter OF safety,
whether YOU go row or 90 some other year
whether this year or the next year Both
your feet on the rock and you will DEFY all
earth and hell to overthrow YOU l conSratu-
late you. give you great JOY. II Is haPpy
New Year to you.
wears are going. You hear some people say:
III wish could 60 back again to boyhood" L
am afraid l might make worse life out OF IT
than have made. You could not afford TO go
back to boyhood II 1t were possible lou
done. The past is gone. Look out for the
future.
To all Christians it is time Of gladness. l
am glad the wears are going. You are coming
on nearer home. Let your countenance light
up with the thought Nearer home.
Now, when one can sooner get to the center
Of things Is he not to be congratulated VINO
wants TO be always in the freshman classt
We study God In this world BY the Biblical
photograph Of Him; but We all know we can
In five minutes interview with friend get
more accurate idea of him than we can by
studying him for fifty years through pictures
or words The little child that died at o
| months of age knows more of God than all
Andoyer, and all Princeton, and all New
| Brunswick, and all Edinsburgh, and all the
| theological institutions in Christendom Is 1t
not better to go up to the very headquarters
Of knowledge"
DEATH NOT so TERRIBLE.
| Does not our common sense teach US that 1t
| is better to te at the center than TO be clear
| out on the rim Of the wheel, holding nervous
| " fast to the tire lest We be suddenly hurried
| into light and eternal felicity! Through all
kinds Of optical instruments trying to peer IN
| through the cracks and the keyholes OF heav-
| en-afraid that both doors Of the celestial
mansion will be swung wide open before our
| entranced vision-rushing about among the
apothecary shops Of this world, wondering II
| this Is good for rheumatism and that Is good
for neuralgia, and something else is good Tor
| a bad cough, lest we be suddenly ushered in
| to a land of everlasting health where the in
habitant never says: II am sick"
| What fools We all are to prefer the circum-
/ ference to the center. What dreadful thing
| II would be il we should be suddenly ushered
from this wintry world into the Maytlm. or,
| chards of heaven, and il our pauperlsm OF al
| and sorrow should be suddenly broken = by
q presentation Of an emIe Or's castle sur
| rounded by parks with springlng fountains
and paths, up and down which angels OF God
walk two and two We are like persons stand
ing on the cold steps OF the national picture
| gallery In London, under umbrellas IN tine
rain. afraid to 60 In amid the Turner'S, and
the Titians, and the Raphaels. come tc
them and say: ''Wny don't you go inside the
galleryP' %" they say, 1--WE don't know
whether We can get in9m say; Don't yoI
see the door is openY' Yes" they say, "Du
are so attached to them We don't like K
leays.n But" say, at is so much brighte
and more beautiful In the gallery you nae
better 90 in." mo" they say. 1--WE know ex
actly how it is out here, but we don't know
how 1t is in there" o, let us be glad that W.
are one year nearer the scene that explains
all aud irrsdiates all
| eLoRIEs OF THE LAST DAY.
| In 1885 the French resolved that at linen
they would have q musical demonstration
that had never been heard OF. 1t would D
| Lnaue up u Tue CuliLtS Va OCAS ohA shS NAS
charge of cannon. The experiment was
perfect success. What with the ringing o
the bells and the report of the ordinance, tn
CITY trembled and the hills shook with tn
triumphal march that was as strange as
was overwhelming. With a more glorious &C
compartment will Gods dear children go int
their high residence, when the trumpet
shall sound and the last day has come. At tn
signal given the bells Of the towers and of tn
lighthouses and of the cities will strike thei
| sweetness into last chime that shall ring int
the heavens and float off upon the sea, joine
by the boom of bursting mine and magazine
augmented by all the cathedral towers c
heayen-the harmonies Of earth and the syn
phouies of the celestial realm making up on
great triumphal march, tit to celebrate th
! ascent of the redeemed to where they sha
, shine as the stars forever and forever. Wit
, such anticlpations we can look back without
single regret upon the flying years. aud loi
ward with exultation to the time when tn
archangel, with one foot ON the sea and th
, other foot on the land, shall swear BY Hi
that liveth forever and ever that time shall
| no longer